- Chairman: Frank M Peters
- Number of partners worldwide: 17
- Number of other lawyers worldwide: 47
- Languages: Dutch, English, French, German
www.spigthoff.com
Firm Overview: Spearheads of the office are corporate litigation, securities litigation, corporate criminal law and tax litigation.
Main Areas of Practice:
Corporate Litigation: Spigthoff’s lawyers are specialised in resolving shareholder disputes, securities litigation, corporate governance issues, officers’ liability and shareholder activism. They represent several institutional investors, hedge funds, and other shareholders, also in relation to securities laws, stock exchange regulations and securities class actions. In addition, Spigthoff ’s lawyers successfully litigate matters regarding other commercial disputes as well.
Tax: The Tax Department specialises in tax litigation and has extensive experience in this field.
Corporate Criminal Law: Partners of the firm have a vested reputation for conducting successful defences in a number of highly publicised cases (and have managed to keep other potentially explosive cases away from the media).The criminal defence lawyers of Spigthoff are specialised in fraud cases; if needed they cooperate with the specialists of the banking and financial law and tax department of the firm. Defended cases include, in particular,money laundering, bribery, forgery, tax evasion and insider trading.
Arbitration: Members of the firm are experienced in the conduct of foreign language arbitration, both under local and international arbitration rules and are involved in several high profile international arbitration proceedings.
Banking & Financial Law: Spigthoff is recognised as a leading practioner in this area of law,with a large number of specialists in this extensive field. Practice areas include sanctions law and enforcement, securities litigation, market abuse, investor disputes, compliance and support for the compliance function and the structuring of investment funds. The firm has successfully advised a great many financial institutions, investment funds, corporations, trust offices and business leaders in these areas.
Insolvency: The firm has ample experience in restructuring distressed corporations, both as advisers to the company and as advisers to the bank or other creditors.